[SOLVED] sa-update spamassassin

I wish to implement a process to update my *.cf files for spamassasin using sa-update. I do not have a separate install of spamassasin and am not allowed to install anything outside of the the /opt/zimbra tree. I have read a great deal of documentation/forums but there is nothing specific to zimbra and sa-update/spamassassin. The only info I could find was from BUG 27844 which gives short instructions on how to install sa-update. I'm able to get sa-update to download the files and then dropped into the correct directory

Thanks for the information. When I use a similar setting to you and change LOCAL_STATE_DIR in SpamAssasin.pm and sa-update to /opt/zimbra/conf/spamassassin/ the *.cf files are then placed in directories below /opt/zimbra/conf/spamassassin

for eg: /opt/zimbra/conf/spamassassin/<version>/<channel>/

/opt/zimbra/conf/spamassassin/3.002005/updates_spamassassin_org/

Which according to the sa-update doco is correct.

Unfortunately I can't get SpamAssassin to traverse these directories to find the *.cf files, it only uses the rule files in the /opt/zimbra/conf/spamassassin/ directory. It is no issue I will just copy them manually into the directory

- My understanding is that there has to be some kind of amavis reload to get the new rulesets picked up. Is that incorrect, or are you doing that somewhere else? I'm asking partly as a sanity check for myself and partly to ensure others catch that in the future.

- The SARE rules haven't been updated in ages. While they're still good to have and you never know when they might suddenly start being updated, is it a burden on the remote servers to check for the SARE updates every 6 hours along with everything else, or is the sa-update efficient enough that it's a trivial task?

Thanks for all the effort in posting this and the SaneSecurity thread. They've helped me tighten up my spam setup quite a bit. Now, if only zimbra could figure out a way to let me preserve my customizations between upgrades (or perhaps better yet, include many of these customizations themselves)... :-(